Paralytic drugs, or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), are powerful muscle relaxants used to prevent muscle movement during surgical procedures. They're also used during critical care, such as ...

When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses common medications used in anesthesia and their effects. Following is a transcript: Feinstein: Anesthesiologists sometimes tell patients that they ...

One of the biggest challenges facing the practice of anesthesia are recent changes in infection control rules, according to Clifford Gevirtz, MD, an anesthesiologist with Somnia Anesthesia Services ...

In October, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aiming to reduce the current shortage of several critical medications, including a number of drugs used by anesthesiologists to sedate ...